Treasurer, National Space Society
National Space Society Board of Directors

Joe Redfield, Treasurer of the National Space Society, has been a member of
the National Space Society (NSS) Executive Committee since 1993. During this
time, he has supported the Society in its financial management and tracking
activities. He has managed the transition of the NSS financial data to several
new financial tracking software systems and was the main architect of the existing
Quickbooks financial data tracking system.

Mr. Redfield has served four terms on the NSS Board of Directors (BOD) and
is currently chair of the NSS Budget Committee and the NSS Investment Committee.
He is also a member of the NSS Membership Committee.

As a Chapter leader, he has continuously supported the San Antonio Space Society
in its activities, along with his family, since joining the NSS in 1990. He
was the treasurer of the highly successful NSS 1991 International Space Development
Conference that the Chapter hosted in San Antonio.

Mr. Redfield received his Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Electrical
Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Since 1983, he has been a
part of the engineering staff at Southwest Research Institute, an applied research
and development firm in San Antonio. In this position, he has developed a number
training systems for the aerospace community. Most recently, he led a team
developing an air traffic control trainer for the US Air Force. He currently
leads a team of engineers in the Fuel Cell Systems Group developing a wide
range of applications for fuel cells. He is a Registered Professional Engineer
in the state of Texas.

Joe Redfield shares, with the other leaders of NSS, the vision of whats
possible for humanity in the development of space. He vigorously supports the
NSS Vision: "People living and working in communities beyond the Earth."

He particularly shares with others the view of what can be provided for humanity
here on Earth out of the technology that is being and will be created from
our adventure in moving large numbers of people into space.